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HATE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action

Synonyms:

hate; hatred

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("hate" is a kind of...):

emotion (any strong feeling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hate"):

abhorrence; abomination; detestation; execration; loathing; odium (hate coupled with disgust)

misanthropy (hatred of mankind)

misogamy (hatred of marriage)

misogynism; misogyny (hatred of women)

mysoandry (hatred for men or boys)

misology (hatred of reasoning)

misoneism (hatred of change or innovation)

misopedia (hatred of children)

murderousness (a bloodthirsty hatred arousing murderous impulses)

despisal; despising (a feeling of scornful hatred)

enmity; hostility; ill will (the feeling of a hostile person)

malevolence; malignity (wishing evil to others)

Antonym:

love (a strong positive emotion of regard and affection)

Derivation:

hate (dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards

Example:

She detests politicians

Synonyms:

detest; hate

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "hate" is one way to...):

dislike (have or feel a dislike or distaste for)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hate"):

abhor; abominate; execrate; loathe (find repugnant)

contemn; despise; disdain; scorn (look down on with disdain)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

Sam cannot hate Sue

Sam and Sue hate the movie

Antonym:

love (have a great affection or liking for)

Derivation:

hate (the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action)

hater (a person who hates)

Credits

 Context examples: 

“Come, Darcy,” said he, “I must have you dance. I hate to see you standing about by yourself in this stupid manner. You had much better dance.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

If I had been obliged to look at him with him splay foot on Mr. Wickfield's head, I think I could scarcely have hated him more.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Marianne, who had seen him from the window, and who hated company of any kind, left the room before he entered it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The time of the play is a time which I hate to recollect.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Indeed, of all the things which he had seen yet in the world to surprise him there was none more strange than the hate which class appeared to bear to class.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This favourite is hated by the whole herd, and therefore, to protect himself, keeps always near the person of his leader.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He hated the oblivion of sleep.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And certainly the hate that now divided them was equal on each side.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I hate to have my things touched, Watson.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)